Was Lugia made a Water-type on purpose, or was this overlooked?

In the Pokemon TCG, Lugia has had several appearances. Of these, 4-5 of them have been as a Water-type. Was this done on purpose, or are those mistakes made by The Pokemon Company.

(Lugia Legend, Call of Legends Lugia, and a Promo Lugia - all Water-types)

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Pokemon tcg is different to the main Pokemon games.The Pokemon are symbolised by one type symbols and the symbols can represent multable types.Due to this, some types are missed out and for a type combo a separate as phychic flying type lugia, its hard to represent all its types. So they compensate by making it water type which makes sense for lugia, considering its body represents the flying and water being a third type.Like the answer? If not comment below and I’ll remove it.Hope this answered.Yours indubitably.

The Pokemon Company likes to make certain cards for reasons. TheLEGEND cardsrepresent elements,duets, not Types (necessarily); the Lugia and Ho-oh ones were mimicking the Entei and Suicune, as well as Fire-Water being way better than Normal-Water (TCG wise, and Psychic has a really common weakness); (the only Normal LEGEND card is Raquaza).

For OthersThink about this: they all came out in the D/P/Pt/HG/SS era, right after the RSE era, where dual types, dual weakness/resistances, andDelta SpeciesPokemon were introduced. Delta Species Pokemon are different types than normal (Ex: Steel type Pikachu), so it would make sense to have a Lugia be on a Water Type Card for these reasons:

TL;DR, Game Freak Logic and to increase viability of Lugia. Notably, HG/SS era is the last time they did such things.

(I refer to game time periods as eras of said game by habit.)

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